Maldoror

The inspiration as the title tells was Les Chants de Maldoror The Songs of Maldoror Cavallone followed only loosely the poem interpolating some of its most outrageous content within the story of a film director Paolo Gianni Garko whos undergoing a deep personal crisis The first part which producer Giuseppe Tortorella labelled mythological porn is set in Italy as Marco is working on a film called Maldoror and focuses on his tormented relationship with a married woman Monica Jane Avril According to the script it was filled with excessive and cruel images extracts from the filmwithinafilm which were liberally spliced within the plot and in their uneasiness somehow predated Pasolinis Salò